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# Launch a token

Launching on pumphood is a single transaction. You fill in a short form, confirm once in your wallet, and moments later your token is live with a real Uniswap V3 market that any wallet, bot, or chart can trade.

## The form

Open **Launch a token** and fill in:

<table><thead><tr><th width="200">Field</th><th>Notes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Name</strong></td><td>The token's full name, e.g. <em>Dog In Hood</em>.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Ticker</strong></td><td>The symbol, e.g. <code>DIH</code>. Shown everywhere as <code>$DIH</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Image</strong></td><td>A logo (PNG/JPG/GIF/WebP, up to 1 MB). Pinned to IPFS and stored with your token.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Description</strong></td><td>A line or two about the token.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Socials</strong> (optional)</td><td>Website, X, and Telegram links.</td></tr></tbody></table>

Two optional switches sit below the form:

* **Fees + creator vault** — leave off to keep everything yourself, or toggle on to route your rewards to another wallet or an X handle. See [Routing rewards](/using-pumphood/routing-rewards.md).
* **Initial buy** — toggle on to buy your own token in the very same transaction, before anyone else can. See below.

## What happens when you launch

When you confirm, pumphood pins your metadata to IPFS and then, in **one on-chain transaction**:

1. **Deploys your token** — a standard ERC-20 with a fixed supply of **1,000,000,000** and your metadata written permanently onto the token itself.
2. **Opens a Uniswap V3 pool** at the launch price (1% fee tier), paired with WETH.
3. **Places 90% of supply as liquidity** — single-sided into the pool, then **locked**.
4. **Starts your creator vault** — the remaining 10% begins [vesting](/using-pumphood/creator-rewards.md#the-creator-vault) to you.
5. **Executes your initial buy** — if you enabled it, before any sniper can act.

{% hint style="success" %}
Because your token launches straight into a real Uniswap V3 pool, it shows up on **DexScreener**, works with **Telegram trading bots**, and is buyable from **any wallet** the instant it exists — no waiting to "graduate" before it's tradeable.
{% endhint %}

## Initial buy (optional)

Turning on **Initial buy** lets you send some ETH along with the launch. That ETH is swapped into your brand-new pool **inside the same transaction that creates it**, so your tokens land in your wallet before the market even opens to anyone else.

{% hint style="info" %}
The initial buy is **sniper-proof by design**: nothing can trade the pool before your own buy, because the pool is born and bought in a single atomic step. You pay the normal 1% pool fee — never a penalty.
{% endhint %}

## Your metadata lives on-chain

Unlike most launchpads, pumphood writes your token's metadata reference **onto the token contract** at launch. That means:

* Your name, image, and description are **immutable** — no one can hijack or overwrite them later.
* The token list loads **instantly**, straight from the chain, with no external index.

Next up: [**Creator rewards →**](/using-pumphood/creator-rewards.md)


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